Tag: nw 45th st
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10 more people file claims against city over Ballard Missing Link injuries
Despite reaching a settlement with a group of eight people who sued the City of Seattle in 2022 after they crashed and were injured while biking through the Ballard Missing Link, the city still has not made the treacherous railroad crossing under the Ballard Bridge “reasonably safe for ordinary travel,” according to a new set…
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SDOT’s new gravel pits under the Ballard Bridge baffle riders, more changes coming ‘in 2023’
SDOT completed work on an “interim” redesign of the problematic track crossing under the Ballard Bridge for people attempting to bike the Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail, but the new gravel pits sporadically placed in the area seems to be baffling riders rather than helping them. People have been crashing on the train tracks…
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SDOT will try again to make rail crossing under the Ballard Bridge safer
SDOT is set to start work as soon as Monday on another fix to hopefully prevent people from crashing while biking across the train tracks under the Ballard Bridge as they navigate the notorious Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link. Crews will tear out sections of the roadway and replace it with gravel in hopes that this…
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City will install two-way bikeway for part of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link
The city will build a two-way bikeway this month in an attempt to increase safety on a notoriously dangerous stretch of the Burke-Gilman Trail Missing Link in Ballard. Previously-planned advisory bike lanes on NW 45th Street have been scrapped in lieu of a two-way bikeway that the city hopes will be safer. To make space…
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